The Hartlepool Field of Remembrance was the idea of Hartlepool Labour party members and friends Anth Frain, Ian Cawley, and Coun Dave Hunter with backing from Hartlepool Poppy appeal organiser Sian Cameron among others.

Father and son at the Poppy Crosses at Victory Square.

The list of names has been put together by local Historian Bert Wilson.

Now the field has been completed, Ian Cawley, a veteran of the Green Howards, said: “It’s really good and amazing to see that many crosses all in lines,

“I feel really proud, I’m ex-forces myself. Seeing them all out, it brings it home how many people died in Hartlepool during the war efforts.

“It’s the 80th anniversary of the Second World War next year, so it would be nice if we had permission to bring them out again, but to also add the names of those who died in that war to the Field of Remembrance.”